Suspect in ABN Amro worker's fatal stabbing also harassed four other women

Adil Q., the 37-year-old man suspected of fatally stabbing a 59-year-old woman in the parking lot of Nieuw Vennep station, also harassed multiple other women on the day of the murder, the Public Prosecution Service (OM) said during the first public hearing at the court in Alkmaar on Monday. Four women told the police that a man who spoke broken English harassed them that day, the public prosecutor said.

The victim, Karin, lived in Haarlemmermeer. She was found dead in the station’s parking lot on the evening of March 30. She was stabbed to death with a knife that an AD journalist found on Wednesday, April 1, the OM said. The victim’s blood was found on the knife, and the suspect’s DNA on its handle. During a search of Q.’s room, the police also found shoes with the victim’s blood on them.

An autopsy showed that the suspect stabbed Karin multiple times. She had two stab wounds and six cuts, the prosecutor said. The victim also had injuries consistent with suffocation or strangulation.

Camera footage shows that Karin was talking on the phone while walking to her car. The suspect came cycling out of the bicycle parking area. The police spoke to the person Karin was talking to shortly before her death at 7:35 p.m. They told the police that Karin was approached by a man speaking broken English. She brushed the man off, telling him not to bother her because she was on the phone.

Q. holds an Italian passport and has no fixed address. The suspect had only recently been fired and had to vacate his room, which his employer rented for him, on the day of his arrest.

He was arrested on March 31. The police recognized him from security camera footage because he was previously arrested for shoplifting at Albert Heijn. Q. is also suspected of an assault in Amsterdam in December last year.

Q. will be admitted to the Pieter Baan Center for psychological evaluation. He told the judges multiple times that he does not want to go to the judicial observation clinic and that he does not want to be sentenced to treatment, called TBS in the Netherlands. The court explained to him that the investigating judge’s earlier decision is already final and that he is already on the waiting list for the clinic. Earlier, an Italian court had ordered him admitted ot a psychiatric institution in Italy. That did not happen.

The next hearing is scheduled for September 28.

Karin’s fatal stabbing in Nieuw-Vennep caused quite a stir because she was killed four days after a direct colleague of hers was found dead in Amsterdam. Karin was the personal assistant of the Amsterdam victim, 40-year-old Leonie, who was found killed in her bathtub. Shortly before her own death, the police even questioned Karin as a witness in Leonie’s case.

Leonie was found dead in her home on March 26 after colleagues at the bank alerted the police because she wasn’t at work and was not responding to calls or texts. Her cause of death is still unknown, but the police and OM believe she was murdered. Her partner, Clen V., was arrested and is still in custody.

According to the authorities, apart from the fact that the two women worked together, there seems to be no connection between their murders